Hancock ParkStats

Residents

9,804

Median Age

37

Median Income

$85,277

Crime Coverage

A former Marlborough School teacher charged with sexually abusing two students more than a decade ago is expected to plead to four criminal counts next week as part of a deal with prosecutors, his attorney and the victims’ attorney said Wednesday. Joseph Thomas Koetters faces multiple charges that...

A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday detailed new allegations of sexual misconduct by a former Marlborough School teacher, including a reported history of sexual abuse of students at other Los Angeles-area private schools that were apparently ignored when he was hired...

A former English teacher at Marlborough School in Los Angeles accused of felony sex crimes involving a former student made his first court appearance Wednesday, pleading not guilty to the charges. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, who was arrested earlier this month, faces two counts each of oral copulation...

A former English teacher at Marlborough School, a private all-girls high school in Hancock Park, was arrested Wednesday on felony charges of sex crimes involving a former student at the school, authorities said. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, was arrested Wednesday morning and released hours later...

Problems at one of Los Angeles' premier private schools surfaced in June, when a former student wrote an online essay accusing a popular English teacher of inappropriate conduct. Since then, more former students of Marlborough School have come forward with allegations about the teacher. An internal...

Officials at Marlborough School, a private all-girls high school in Hancock Park, said Sunday that they contacted the Los Angeles Police Department last week after a former student reported inappropriate conduct by a male teacher. The incident, which the school characterized as an "inappropriate...

Officials at the Marlborough School, a private all-girls high school in Hancock Park, said Sunday they contacted the Los Angeles Police Department last week after a former student alleged an inappropriate conduct by a male teacher.

A long-running legal dispute over the use of a Hancock Park home as an Orthodox Jewish prayer house ended Wednesday with the city of Los Angeles agreeing to pay $950,000 in attorney fees and costs to settle the case.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to pay lawyers representing Congregation...

Journalist Michael Hastings was living in Los Angeles and reporting on national security issues and the entertainment industry when he died early Tuesday in a car crash in the city, according to his employer.